Greetings everyone.  Just thought I'd pop in to say hello.  Glad to see you are all about and well. (although "well" is a highly subjective and fleeting term).

After 50 years, the Beach Boys are still stirring the pot.  I believe subsequent generations will view Brian Wilson as a musical genius of our time and he will have gone largely unnoticed by us.

Enjoy your time.

The Beach Boys - I still have the LPs of their music I bought back in the 70s. 

love the Beach Boys. Growing up my dad played a lot of older music (I grew up in the 80's/early 90's0 and one of my first cd's was an oldies compilation cd with beach boys and other artists like America, Seals and Croft, etc.

I wore the heck out of that cd playing "Good Vibrations" over and over and over and over. Then later got more of their songs, can sing most of them by heart

Their new song is great too, link if you haven't heard it/seen the video:

Still, not quite the same without Carl/Dennis Wilson.

I hadn't heard that new one, Stiler.  Thanks for the link.  

I think my husband and I have most of their albums on vinyl, and listening to them conjures up memories of proms, dates, summers at the beach, and my very first transistor radio.  My hometown is a little beach town on the NJ shore.  We moved inland when I was in 3rd grade, but I worked there every summer, either in my grandparents' real estate office, in the bakery, or waitressing.  Their music brings on a nostalgia attack every time I hear it.  

I haven't been completely selfish and have tried to accommodate my children's musical tastes.

I took my son to see his favorite performer,the rap/hip-hop artist, Drake, where I may have been the only over-50 white man in the crowd:

Then, I took my daughter to see her favorite group, Lady Antebellum, where it looked like all of the guys in the crowd were over fifty and white:

My daughter and I also went to see Colbie Caillat, another of her favorites, where I bet all the 50+ men in the audience enjoying watching Ms. Caillat even if they did not care for her music:

I can just imagine you Anthony, checking out the age and ethnicity of all the other men in the audience to determine if you are in the right place or not.  I'm sure your children really appreciate you taking them.   Where are you going for your summer holidays this year?  Can we look forward to some more lovely photos?    

Your  a good dad.